Kate Winslet Quotes

Kate Winslet Quotes On Body Images

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

I don’t know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It’s such a pain… I’m not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.

I’m no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn’t taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It’s not a way to live.

I don’t have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else’s or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I look like people that walk down the street. I don’t have perfect boobs, I don’t have zero cellulite – of course I don’t – and I’m curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that’s great.

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

I don’t go to the gym because I don’t have time but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home

I still don’t believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don’t stuff down chocolate biscuits.

Kate Winslet Quotes On Challenges

I would never accept a role that wasn’t going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I’d say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I’d ever done. It took me to places I didn’t actually know I could go to, and that’s what I want my career to be all about.

People say to me, ‘You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films’. In reality, I haven’t. After each movie, I always think, ‘how different can I possibly be? Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do?’

It’s my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job… I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It’s more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s – t.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

For me, they definitely made it more challenging. The comfort zone factor really kicked in between Leo and I, and I just think that’s because we know each other so well. We’ve known each other since we were 20-years-old.

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I’m so often just terrified by it.

When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don’t particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

Kate Winslet Quotes On Character

I’m often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They’re passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they’ve experienced hardship in their lives.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I’m often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don’t think I’ve actually cried watching myself.

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

Kate Winslet Quotes On Children

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

The whole concept of ‘grounding’ children is utterly stupid – they just go off and rebel and don’t like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don’t want them to not like me.

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

If I had a child, I wouldn’t let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids – and I can say that this does happen frequently – is when the in-flight crew say to me, ‘Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.’ Every time I am told that, I could weep.

I’d rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

So I won an Oscar. It’s amazing. I’ve got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That’s it, moving on.

So I won an Oscar. It’s amazing. I’ve got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That’s it, moving on.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I’m at home with the kids. Even when I am working I’m still basically at home and with the kids. I’ve never left them to go to work.

Kate Winslet Quotes On Mother

It doesn’t matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.